Banning All T-Shirts for JHS
By Kelly Young
During the course of my high school instruction, I attended two different private schools that each imposed its own dress code on me. As a military brat, I have experienced many different school systems and have observed the various ways that things are done. Since I graduated, it seems as though the newest fashion in public schools is to follow the path of the private schools and go uniform.
It is understandable for school districts to do so. Schools that adopt a uniform dress code generally report less violence, theft and other incidents than were experienced the previous year. However, as a child on the inside of dress codes, I have first-hand knowledge of how they aren’t all they are cracked up to be. So it is with mixed feelings that I hear about JISD’s attempt to pull a fast one by slipping a fairly sweeping dress code change into the July 24 school board agenda.
My first beef with the proposed dress code is economical. With the exception of the few odd millionaires we have here in town, Jacksonville is poor. I’m not being derogatory here, there’s nothing wrong with being poor — I’m poor. But this is a blue-collar town — there’s simply not buckets of money floating around. T-shirts make up a large portion of the average teenager’s wardrobe, even more so in a poor teenager’s wardrobe. Ban them and you’ll have students scrambling to find clothes to wear. Changing the dress code will put considerable financial strain on the last people on earth that need any more.
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